To enjoy your snowmobiling adventure in comfort and safety, proper gear is a must. Wear layers to cope with changing weather ...

Mr. Magnason is an Icelandic writer and filmmaker; he wrote from Reykjavik. Ms. Hallgrímsdóttir is an Icelandic photographer.

The confusing names of Iceland and Greenland date back to Viking times. This centuries-old naming strategy reveals clever marketing and some myth-making.

Bill Whitaker was there as lava flowed from a volcano in Iceland in 2021, covering the landscape in molten rock. He returned to see what scientists have learned from the eruption.

Travelers can visit the same landscapes that NASA astronauts trained on before their inaugural spacewalk. Courtesy Hörður Sveinsson/Visit Iceland Iceland is full of diverse geography that many ...

With more than 2.3 million travellers visiting Iceland each year to see the country's breathtaking glacial landscapes, the potential impact of his work extends far beyond the scientific community.

Iceland is a bucket list destination for virtually any landscape photographer. From the expanse of active volcanoes to the famous plane crash on Sólheimasandur, the Nordic island nation offers up ...

Iceland’s landscape is like nothing on Earth with volcanoes such as Eyjafjallajökull, which made headlines when its ash cloud caused air traffic chaos in 2010.

Iceland’s tree-less landscape is not because of the extreme cold (as one would assume), but the result of human folly. This also means that several species of wildlife have been lost.

John Zurier, Summer Still (The Same Shadow), 2014; Courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York JZ: I didn’t go to Iceland searching for unsentimental sense of solitude, but I certainly ...